A small start-up furniture design company in Lexington, KY, is pioneering a business model—one that incorporates crowd-sourced designs and distributed manufacturing—that could serve as a sign-post for how manufacturing will change in the not-too-distant f…
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President Obama yesterday announced a series of executive actions designed to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, but the plan was immediately condemned by the nation’s largest manufacturing trade group as too costly and anti-competitive.
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President Obama yesterday announced a series of executive actions designed to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, but the plan was immediately condemn… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/discussion/obamas-climate-program-good-or-bad-manufacturing/

Bob McEwan, general manager for new product innovation at GE Aviation predicts that by 2020 “well over 100,000 parts” in its new range of LEAP and fuel-efficient GE9X aircraft engines will be produced using 3D printing techniques.
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Bob McEwan, general manager for new product innovation at GE Aviation predicts that by 2020 “well over 100,000 parts” in its new range of LEAP an… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/discussion/3d-printing-takes-aircraft-engines-ge-aviation/

Manufacturers have been among the most avid adopters of big data analytics, for fairly obvious reasons: By aggregating and analyzing vast quantities of near-real-time plant floor and product lifecycle data, manufacturers can gain valuable, even predictive…
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Manufacturers have been among the most avid adopters of big data analytics, for fairly obvious reasons: By aggregating and analyzing vast quantities of near-… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/discussion/big-data-means-big-network-upgrades/

For millions of college and high school students who graduated in the past few weeks, the thrill of receiving diplomas along with tearful congratulations has, no doubt, begun to fade, replaced by worries about finding gainful and rewarding employment.
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For millions of college and high school students who graduated in the past few weeks, the thrill of receiving diplomas along with tearful congratulations has, no doubt, begun to f… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturers-graduates-arent-workforce-ready/

There is a growing and welcome trend among US high schools to adopt the standards of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program by offering an IB High School Diploma in addition to standard diplomas. Our local high school, for example, has recently add…
There is a growing and welcome trend among US high schools to adopt the standards of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program by offering an IB High School Diploma in addition… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturing-leaders-should-get-behind-ib-high-school-diploma/

Now that many manufacturers are finally embracing cloud enablement of a wider range of systems and data—including salesforce automation, HR, procurement, even ERP—can a migration of core product data and CAD applications to the cloud be far behind?
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Now that many manufacturers are finally embracing cloud enablement of a wider range of systems and data—including salesforce automation, HR, procuremen… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/discussion/cad-cloud-sorry-its-not-happening/

Manufacturers shouldn’t be distracted by the alleged conduct of any single foreign economic power when it comes to the serious business of cybersecurity. It’s a far bigger problem than that. There are multiple issues involved - and not just for U.S. manuf…
As President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping settled into their ‘informal’ Californian-desert Summit last weekend, the issue of Cybersecurity was already very m… http://www.gil-edvents.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturing-cybersecurity-not-just-china-issue/